Seal Observation Database (NRM)

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Swedish Museum of Natural History on Jan 7, 2025 Swedish Museum of Natural History
Publication date:
7 January 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

This data set contains observations of dead seals made by the public, mostly around the Swedish coast. Each observation is verified at the Swedish Museum of Natural History before it is approved and published on the web. The verification consists of controlling the accuracy of coordinates and taxonomic determination. If the specimen is considered valuable to collect for autopsy, then observers may be contacted by the National Museum of Natural History or the Swedish Veterinary Agency (SVA) in Uppsala to obtain more information about the findings.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,700 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 02f9daea-f137-4a09-adce-e4d43afd7f51.  Swedish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Linnea Cervin
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Senior Assistant
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE
Kevin Holston
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE
Manash Shah
  • Programmer
Swedish Museum of Natural History
114 18 Stockholm
SE

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Family Phocidae (sälar)
Species Halichoerus grypus (gråsäl), Pusa hispida (vikare), Phoca vitulina (knubbsäl)

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 02f9daea-f137-4a09-adce-e4d43afd7f51
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nrm-seals